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Roseanne Barr Wants To Cook For Natalie Portman — And Set Her Straight On Israel
Roseanne Barr, the controversial comedy actress currently starring in the Trump-supporting revival of ‘Roseanne’, appeared at the Jerusalem Post Conference on Sunday in New York. According to the Jerusalem Post, Barr mentioned that if she got a chance to sit down with Natalie Portman, who recently snubbed Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in declining the Genesis…
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Ivanka And Jared Eat At (Non-Kosher) Israeli Restaurant
Israeli food is the trend of 2018, it seems. (Just as it was in 2017, the crotchety old grump in me whispers.) Our cultural ken for hummus and sabich and tiny plates of salat only seems to be getting stronger. It seems even Jared Kushner and Ivanka Trump are not immmune. The Washington Post got…
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The Food Network Gets A Taste Of Russ & Daughters
“One of the things that was most important to us was a thing called haimishness…so like just tradition, non-pretense, simplicity,” Josh Russ Tupper, co-owner of Russ & Daughters, told an affable Alex Guarnaschelli (a familiar face to Chopped and Iron Chef fans) on ‘Fix Me A Plate,’ a new Food Network show dedicating to showing…
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Insomnia Cookies Are Now Kosher — At One Store
A mainstay of the collegiate world, Insomnia Cookies is a chain of United States bakeries that specializes in delivering warm cookies until 3 am. The chain is the brainchild of a Seth Berkowitz, who was a University of Pennsylvania student at the time, who began baking and delivering cookies to students on campus late at…
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Recipes Vegetarian Sabbath Minestrone
Minestrone del Sabato (Italy) This classic minestrone soup comes from Rome’s Jewish community. A good minestrone soup should be thick with vegetables, pasta or rice and never watery. The vegetables can vary according to the season – turnip, leek, cabbage, broad (fava) beans, Swiss chard, or beet greens are all possible additions. Serves 4 3…
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Was Jesus A Vegetarian — Along With An Ancient Jewish Sect?
When it comes to the history of vegetarianism, Jews have been swearing off meat for a very long time. “See, I give you every seed-bearing plant that is upon all the earth, and every tree that has seed-bearing fruit; they shall be yours for food,” it is written in Genesis 1:29. Many scholars take this…
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Is This Max Brenner’s Next Move?
Spoiler alert: There is no actual Max Brenner. The “bald man” behind a wildly popular chain of chocolate-themed cafes is like an Israeli version of Betty Crocker or Colonel Sanders. There is, however, an Oded Brenner, who co-founded the chain with business partner Max Fichtman in a Tel Aviv suburb in 2006. His acrimonious 2012…
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Chef Tamar Adler Divulges Why She Doesn’t Take Pictures Of Her Food
It’s a commonly held belief that what we eat tells us a lot about who we are. But what about the bygone foods of yore? Tamar Adler is a Chez Panisse alum, veteran food writer and researcher – and a custodian of forgotten recipes. In her new book, Something Old, Something New, which like her…
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Recipes Tamar Adler’s Alligator Pear Salad
What is an alligator pear? Something familiar by a foreign name. It lived an abused if tolerable life, until one bright morning under the Nixon administration when it awoke to learn it would no longer be harassed with salads of chicken or lobster or anything. It would be left to stand on its own. It…
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Pickle-Flavored Ice Cream? It’s Hot!
Pregnant women may find themselves overjoyed at the idea of the two most common cravings — pickles and ice cream — combined. Head to the Upper West Side’s Lucky Pickle Dumpling Co., where you can get a pickle flavored soft-serve ice cream for a mere $5 if you’re feeling adventurous. The restaurant itself is a…
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Nigella Lawson Opens Up About Cooking As A Feminist
Nigella Lawson is flawless. She has a cooking show and her own line of cookware. Her new cookbook At My Table: A Celebration Of Home Cooking is a cozy glimpse into the friendly, reassuring world of home cooking. Angelina Jolie was going to play her in a movie. Blood, Bones and Butter is one of…
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